raer

• raír, reer

From Old Galician-Portuguese reer, raer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rādere, present active infinitive of rādō, from Proto-Italic *razdō, from an extended form of *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”). Cognate with Portuguese reer and Spanish raer. Compare English raze.

• IPA^(key): /raˈeɾ/

raer (first-person singular present raio, first-person singular preterite raín, past participle raído)

1. (transitive) to scrape, skim, shave

   Synonyms: rapar, rasar, rozar

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 135:

     Para esto ual reer o lugar jnchado et çercallo de semesugas para liurar ende o sange que y ha para seyr fora

     For this is valid to shave the swollen place and then to encircle it with leeches, so freeing the blood that is there, letting it go out

2. to scythe
3. to flatten, raze; to lay bare
4. (impersonal) to clear up

• rasa
• rasar

• “raer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “reer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “rraer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “raer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “raer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “raer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Latin rārus.

râer

1. (rare) rare, unusual

• Dutch: raar

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “raer”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Spanish raer, from Latin rādere, from Proto-Italic *razdō, from Proto-Indo-European *rh₁d-dʰ-, extended from *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”).

• IPA^(key): /raˈeɾ/ [raˈeɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ra‧er

raer (first-person singular present raigo or rayo, first-person singular preterite raí, past participle raído)

1. (rare) to scrape, fray, abrade

   Synonym: raspar

   • 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Judas Iscariote”, in El juguete rabioso:

     Más allá las mondongueras raen los amarillentos mondongos en el estaño de sus mostradores, o cuelgan de los ganchos inmensos hígados rojos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (rare) to remove completely

• “raer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014